Abstract
Bruno Fortier : The control of water. Half a century at least before the works of Haussmann, transformations in water distribution policy, following decisions of the state and the Académie des Sciences, attempted to remedy the situation left by the Ancien Régime. Water distribution was no longer to be organised according to privilege but the needs of the population, to a «bio-policy » of the town and the habitat. Secondly, with a new conception of public works, the control of water was to be separated from that of food, thus opening the way for a homogeneous distribution of public utilities. Finally, the perfection of machines was to replace the empiricism of experts, so that new forms of efficient water distribution on a large scale could be invented.
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